First Place

• $12,500 cash
• A meeting with Microsoft Ventures
• Team featured on the Office Developer podcast (or equivalent)
• Post on the betterwithoffice site
• Featured in the Office Store (With expectation that the Application is ready for deployment on the store. This can be done up to 6 months after the winners are announced.)
• Microsoft sweatshirts (limit 5 per team)

Second Place

• $7,500 cash
• A meeting with Microsoft Ventures
• Post on the betterwithoffice site
• Featured in the Office Store (With expectation that the Application is ready for deployment on the store. This can be done up to 6 months after the winners are announced.)
• Microsoft sweatshirts (limit 5 per team)

Third Place

• $5,000 cash
• Post on the betterwithoffice site
• Featured in the Office Store (With expectation that the Application is ready for deployment on the store. This can be done up to 6 months after the winners are announced.)
• Microsoft sweatshirts (limit 5 per team)

Popular Choice

Best Teams Integration

• $2,500 cash
• 1 Surface Book PC
• Featured in the Office Store (With expectation that the Application is ready for deployment on the store. This can be done up to 6 months after the winners are announced.)
• Post on the betterwithoffice site
• Microsoft sweatshirts (limit 5 per team)

Best Use of Microsoft Graph

• $2,500 cash
• 1 Surface Book PC
• Featured in the Office Store (With expectation that the Application is ready for deployment on the store. This can be done up to 6 months after the winners are announced.)
• Post on the betterwithoffice site
• Microsoft sweatshirts (limit 5 per team)

Best Office 365 Add-in

• $2,500 cash
• 1 Surface Book PC
• Featured in the Office Store (With expectation that the Application is ready for deployment on the store. This can be done up to 6 months after the winners are announced.)
• Post on the betterwithoffice site
• Microsoft sweatshirts (limit 5 per team)

Best SharePoint App

• $2,500 cash
• 1 Surface Book PC
• Featured in the Office Store (With expectation that the Application is ready for deployment on the store. This can be done up to 6 months after the winners are announced.)
• Post on the betterwithoffice site
• Microsoft sweatshirts (limit 5 per team)

Work smarter, not harder with Office 365.

If you're looking for the current Hack Productivity 2018 challenge, please click here!

Mastering the art of productivity can take a very long time. That’s why we’re looking for hacks - smart solutions that make productivity feel effortless, using Microsoft Office 365. Get ready to build or update a great app and compete for a share of in cash and prizes.

Use your coding prowess, combined with powerful tools and resources from the Office 365 Dev Center, to build integrations, add-ins, web apps, mobile apps, or bots that extend and enhance Office 365. You’ll have a chance to win cash, a Surface Book PC, merchandise, social media exposure, or a meeting with top investors.

It’s up to you and your imagination to create something that is truly outstanding. We’d love to see people write custom function add-ins for Excel, create unique integrations for Teams, build collaborative spaces in SharePoint or reimagine relationships between people, data and applications with the Microsoft Graph API. But it’s up to you. There are over 100 million active Office 365 users out there. We’re excited to see what you build that might help them achieve more.

Eligibility

Individuals, and teams of individuals, who have reached the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence at the time of entry

Organizations that, at the time of entry, have been duly organized or incorporated and validly exist, and employ 50 or fewer people (Organizations that employ more than 50 people will be eligible for a non-cash recognition prize)

The competition will welcome submitters from around the globe. However individuals or organizations may be disqualified if they are based in a nation, state, province, or territory where U.S. or local law prohibits participating in the competition or receiving a prize. This includes individuals, who are residents of, and organizations domiciled in Brazil, Quebec, Cuba, Sudan, Iran, North Korea, Syria and any other country designated by the United States Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Requirements

Build or update functioning software that improves productivity and uses at least one Office 365 product.

Submit the following assets:

Demo video. (hosted on YouTube, Vimeo, or Youku). Your video should include a demo of your working application via a step-by-step visual demo.

Images. Please submit at least one image/screenshot of your application.

Access. A way to access your working application for judging and testing.